Mick Hartley

An AI simulation of Anne Frank (!) allegedly teaches ppl to “think critically” about #history and the #Holocaust. Judge for yourselves: pic.twitter.com/ts7wUANUv7

— Daniel Mendelsohn (@DAMendelsohnNYC) January 17, 2025

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Added: see Cynthia Ozick's New Yorker article fom 1997, Who Owns Anne Frank?

But the diary in itself, richly crammed though it is with incident and passion, cannot count as Anne Frank’s story. A story may not be said to be a story if the end is missing. And because the end is missing, the story of Anne Frank in the fifty years since “The Diary of a Young Girl” was first published has been bowdlerized, distorted, transmuted, traduced, reduced; it has been infantilized, Americanized, homogenized, sentimentalized; falsified, kitschified, and, in fact, blatantly and arrogantly denied.